Easily the best film I’ve seen this year was at the Tribeca Film Festival, a little vampire movie called LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, from director Tomas Alfredson (pictured) and writer John Ajvide Lindqvist. While that film is, predictably, getting the Hollywood remake treatment, the duo are already getting to work on their next flick, entitled “Manniskohamn” (eng. translation: IN HUMAN SHAPE), based on Lindqvist’s new book.
The story involves a little girl who disappears at a lighthouse, and the supernatural occurrences that surround her father’s return to the scene, years later.
Alfredson told Variety: “The new novel is very special and very difficult. We have made a gentleman’s agreement to make the film together, but we are in no hurry. It took time to make ‘Let the Right One In,’ and I think that was only good.”
“We have no production company behind us yet, and we know this will be an expensive film with lots of special effects.”
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN won Best Feature at Tribeca – hopefully the rest of the world will get a good look at it before the remake sullies its name forever…
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